What are the reasons that led a woman to jump from a bridge with her son in Colombia

The images of a tragic event in Colombia have gone around the world. They show how a 32-year-old woman makes the final decision of her life before the desperate cries of her son in her arms, which asks her not to draw a bridge.

According to local media reports, the debts to a group of extortionists They took Jessy Paola Moreno Cruz to commit suicide by throwing herself into the void from a car deck with her ten-year-old son.

Apparently, the woman had an economic debt from loans known as "drip", those for which, if she did not pay, retaliation is beating or even death itself.

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According to Colombian media, Jessy worked in catalog sales and I had acquired a loan "non refundable" with one of the criminal groups that abound in this country and that He had threatened to hurt her and her family.

Drip loans are so called in reference to this "drip" that they leave you on the street. Although the person receiving the money does not sign any official document, they receive threats if they do not pay the high interest they generate.

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In the words of the Mayor of Ibagué, Guillermo Alfonso Jaramillo, referred to the local media, "This woman is the most recent case of people on the verge of despair because of some debts that can not be paid".

A dozen police officers and psychologists who tried to dissuade the woman from throwing themselves burst into tears while she could not be stopped. The live broadcast by a man who recorded this difficult moment became viral and shocked the world.

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